(X-\ x\ ) for X not locally connected

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(87)90044-7MaRDI QIDQ1089953zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Smith

Publication date 1987

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(87)90044-7

zbMATH Keywords

hereditarily indecomposable continuumnonmetric indecomposable continuaStone-Čech compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Remainders in general topology (54D40) Continua and generalizations (54F15)

Review text

In this paper a continuum is a compact connected Hausdorff space and an indecomposable continuum is a continuum which is not the union of two proper subcontinua. The study of indecomposable continua has produced many surprises. At one time even the existence of such a plane continuum was a surprise. That nonmetric indecomposable continua exist in nature came as something of a surprise when Bellamy observed that for the nonnegative reals A, \(\beta\) A-A is nonmetric, connected and indecomposable. If one thinks of A as I (the closed interval [0,1] minus \(\{\) \(1\})\), then \(\beta\) (I-\(\{\) \(1\})\)-I is indecomposable. Clearly I is locally connected at \(\{\) \(1\}\) and \(\{\) \(1\}\) is not a local cut point of I. So by contrast, the author shows: If w is point of the metric continuum X, w is not a local cut point of X, and X is not connected im kleinen at w, then \(\beta\) (X-\(\{\) \(w\})\)-X is a decomposable continuum and has only one composant. Without any assumption about the behavior of X at w, \(\beta\) (X-\(\{\) \(w\})\)-X is never hereditarily indecomposable. However, if X is nondegenerate and hereditarily indecomposable, then \(\beta\) (X-\(\{\) \(x\})\)-X contains a hereditarily indecomposable continuum.

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Cited in

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• The Chang-Łoś-Suszko theorem in a topological setting
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• Inverse limits of Hausdorff arcs
• \({\mathcal E}(X)\) for non-simply connected H-spaces

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